etc Magazine wins major award

Johnston Press Awards.

Our very popular etc Magazine won a major title at the second annual Johnston Press Group Awards last night (Thursday March 6).

etc - the widest distributed complementary lifestyle magazine in Sussex - picked up the Magazine of the Year title.

To read the latest edition of the magazine go to etcmag.net or pick up a copy from one of the many outlets listed on the website.

There were also awards for various members of the teams that produce this newspaper and website and those of our sister titles across Sussex.

Olivia Lerche, on the Chichester Observer, was runner-up in the Journalist of the Year (weekly) section.

The South Publishing Unit won the Newspaper Sales Subscriptions team of the Year Award.

Letitia Holder, from the South Publishing Unit, was runner-up in the Sales Customer Service/Retention Award.

The Unit was also runner-up in the Sales Team of the Year (Local Display and Features) section.

A full list of the award-winners across Johnston Press is below.

The awards night was sponsored by the following:

Atrion - Category sponsor: Johnston Press Title of the Year (Overall)

Aktrion has been an innovator in the development and delivery of support services to newspaper and commercial printers since its establishment in 1992. It now has an international infrastructure and also operates in the automotive, food and transport sectors. Aktrion provides our Dinnington print plant with a fully managed mailroom operation and temporary labour as required. It also provides transport solutions at Portsmouth Web.

Amplify - Category sponsor: Sales Team of the Year Local Display & Features

Through a consistent and structured approach, the Amplify team secures new advertisers on long-term contracts for media companies. Now implemented in Johnston Press, the Amplify Programme is executed by the most experienced media consultant & project specialist team, which leads sales teams on a journey and implements world class sales training that focuses on identifying new business opportunities and developing relationships and the all-important closing skills.

Arnold Clark Vehicle Management – pre-dinner drinks reception

ACVM is one of the UK’s premier vehicle leasing companies and the largest privately owned automotive group in Europe. It specialises in contract hire and vehicle leasing and also helps corporate business, small businesses and Government departments achieve genuine savings, improvements in productivity and reductions in carbon emissions. A family run business, ACVM supplies vehicles and transport solutions to Johnston Press.

Endava - Category sponsor: Innovation Award

Endava is one of the fastest growing IT services companies in Europe. It focuses on a number of sectors - including media, technology and publishing - and designs, implements and manages secure, high-volume, business-critical systems and digital services for clients. It provides innovative solutions to drive strategic change and currently supplies Johnston Press with a pre-press creative solution.

Grapeshot – Category sponsor: Best Use of Digital Platforms

Grapeshot’s keyword technology enables publishers to match online content to related advertising messages, ensuring the reader will be interested in the advertising they see. Increasing engagement between audience and advertising improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the campaign. Grapeshot has worked with JP for over four years, powering contextual advertising for display campaigns and the infrastructure behind ‘Smart Ads’.

Localstars were the first in the world to integrate into the Google Ad Server and since working with Johnston Press has helped unlock growth in online display ads. Together, Localstars and Johnston Press have sold well over 100,000 ads, delivered more than 1,000,000,000 impressions and created a hugely significant digital display revenue line for the company. The aim is to treble that over the next few years!

Madgex - Category sponsor: Best Recruitment Sales Agent

Madgex is Europe’s leading provider of online recruitment software and services. Over the last 14 years it has gained extensive experience in building job boards that meet the demands of the ever changing digital recruitment landscape. Its award-winning innovative job board software is designed to help clients drive digital recruitment revenues for newspaper clients. The technology will be launched shortly in Johnston Press.

Mediaforce - Category sponsor: Publishing Unit of the Year

Mediaforce is the largest national representation company in the UK and is the industry market leader. With the shape of the industry continually evolving, it has to innovate and create solutions where brands can leverage the enormous trust that they, through their products, have worked so hard to build up. Mediaforce is incredibly proud of its working relationship with Johnston Press, which stretches back over 20 years.

Miles 33 – table wine

Miles 33 develops advertising, editorial and mobile publishing solutions for multi-channel media companies wanting to prosper in good times and bad. Its technology can help clients improve content and deepen audience engagement – and do so cost-efficiently. All solutions are backed by a global support infrastructure and can be deployed on-premise or in a cloud. Miles 33 currently supplies Johnston Press with advertising and planning systems.

NRS Media creates innovative ways to help media companies increase their local revenue. Using a true partnership model, they combine their extensive international media sales experience with a proven flair for commercial innovation to analyse the areas in which they best impact on sales performance. NRS Media has worked with Johnston Press to generate the company extra revenue across the last five years.

Occam - Category sponsor: Data Capture Award

Occam is a leading UK engagement agency with 20 years’ experience in delivering data marketing solutions to its clients. They aim to draw relevant and useful insight from data to help clients have a more profitable and rewarding engagement with their customers. Occam is helping Johnston Press to build a single view of our consumer across the multitude of touch points and interactions that exist for our army of brands.

Press Association - Category sponsor: Story of the Year in Print & Digital

The Press Association is the UK’s leading multimedia news agency and digital content supplier. The home of the UK’s national newswire - which supplies news to national and regional newspapers, magazines and broadcasters - the Press Association also provides tailored multi-media content solutions for a broad range of businesses, brands and public sector organisations. PA has a particularly strong relationship with Johnston Press and today works with the group’s daily and weekly titles across a range of content areas.

Salesforce - Category sponsor: Best Sales Person

Salesforce.com is the #1 CRM platform and the clear global leader in sales, service, marketing and cloud platforms. It pioneered the shift to cloud, social, mobile and connected devices. It provides companies with the tools to transform the way they sell, service and market. The company provides core components to enable Johnston Press sales teams to work remotely and significantly improve their sales effectiveness and customer interaction.

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